Aboriginal candidate for Mayor of Winnipeg confronts racism

Aboriginal candidate for Mayor of Winnipeg confronts racism
By Staff Writers, CBC News
CBC News
Thursday, Jun 26, 2014

Winnipeg mayoral candidate Robert-Falcon Ouellette is exposing the racism he's faced so far in his campaign.

Ouellette, 37, spoke entirely in French at the Francophone Chamber of Commerce mayoral debate in St. Boniface last week.

Not long afterward, abusive comments were posted online on Ouellette's Facebook page, first about his decision to speak French, then about his aboriginal heritage. He also received hateful emails.

The comments ranged from "you are lower-class" to angry obscenities about Indians and French people.

"Go back to drinking. That’s where Indians belong," said one.

Ouellette, the program director for the Aboriginal Focus Programs at the University of Manitoba, said that instead of turning the other cheek, he's talking about it to expose what's out there.

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